Mekelle University’s intense passion to join the list of Best African Universities in 2025 (Video)

Kindeya Gebrehiwot (PhD), President of the Mekelle University [Photo: Awramba Times/Dawit Kebede]

Awramba Times (Addis Ababa) – Mekelle University, one of the leading Ethiopian higher educational institutions, has announced its plan to become one of the top 25 African universities in the coming ten years. Please watch Awramba Times’ short video production on the matter.

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This vision and strategic plan is really gratifying and important. But I also want to bring to the attention of the University administration that giving only a consoling speech and ambitious promises by themselves will not take us there. It needs to take constructive actions at every level. Don’t forget in 10 years to come, among the 25 top Universities!!! I hope Awrambatimes will have a follow-up questions, then!!

Dear ato Dawit, editor of Awramba times. First I would like to appreciate your efforts but the production you provided here is a little bit short. Would you please produce another one with more detailed info (at least try to make it half an hour)so that we will have a clear image about that “intense passion” of the management you have tried to address on your story

I don’t think Dr. Kindeya cares this much for the success of Mekelle University. This is only political and he is trying to cover up his defeat during the TPLF central committee which was held couple of weeks ago. Giving false promise and deceive the people of Tigray for the mere reason of staying in power is so sickening. He should try to work around the corruption issues around the University instead.

I, for one, as a concerned Tigrean am after the success of Mekelle University and I don’t have a problem if MU joins the list of the top 25 universities in the world let alone in Africa. But Dr. Kindeya’s dictatorial and corrupted game along his corrupted colleagues is a public mockery to the people of Tigray. All he wants to pass along this headline to the wider public is like “Hey stupid guys, I want to retain my presidential power as long as I could irrespective of my failure in the political position and look this is how I fool you”. This style of fooling innocent people is disgustingly fucked up old fashion of dictators. Enough is Enough!!! If he is so genuine about the success of Mekelle University, which I am sure he is not, he should first clean his corrupted hands and then his colleagues. He (and his colleagues like Tedros Hagos) is all after his position and the government’s money.

Ethiopia is doing lots for its neighbors and the continent as a whole including with delivering peace keeping forces being the fourth biggest UN and first in the AU.

Ethiopia is hosting the biggest refugees in Africa. She is currently hosting 730,000 refugees from over 18 countries, with the majority originating from South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan.

Yet, the Jew controlled, owned and operating western medias from England, France, USA, South Africa and even Kenya(white and kuly-pakistani and Indian collaborators are owning and running the Kenyan medias and Economy) are continuing portraying our country as usual with bad, negative, shortage and you name it.

The English scholars and medias such as Guardian, Mail, Reuters (belongs to a Canadian Jew billionaire), …., France such as AFP, South Africans such as Mail & Guardian and …., those Jews owned medias using them as WMD weapons from New York and Washington and so on from the west almost all of them run by the Jews are at war against Ethiopia selling bad and negative magnified fictional stories about her to the world they are controlling through the Jew medias, scholars and institutions such as Think Tanks. We know all of them are united, have the same goal and working together including those so called aid agencies, NGO’s and so on.

You can find them all over the country feeling free doing whatever bad and negative they are doing for so long against the citizens having base in the Bole Area; God knows what they are doing over there including the Apartheid children and Jews from South Africa that are engaging with the kind of businesses……

I agree with halefom. This guy is layer. We know what did the last years simply nothing. He is not compiteble for this position. He is not in office. He is always travels every where the world for nothing. We payed 60 thousend heros . Pls he must resigne from presiden of the uni and tda boredchiarman.

September 12, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – A well placed Sudanese source revealed today that a dissident Ethiopian general fled to Sudan on Friday evening along with his soldiers after clashes with the Eritrean army.

The source who spoke to the Turkey-based Anadolu news agency on condition of anonymity said that General Mola Asgedom who heads the Tigray People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM) that is based in Eritrea, arrived at the Sudanese town of Hamdait at the border triangle between Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan.

He explained that Asgedom escaped to Sudan after armed clashes broke out with the Eritrean army at the outskirts of the Eritrean city of Omhajer on Friday morning.

The source went on to say that Asgedom and 683 of his forces handed over their weapons to the Sudanese authorities.

He explained that Khartoum succeeded in preventing the escalation of clashes between Asgedom’s forces and the Eritrean army and evacuated the soldiers to Wad al-Hilu town in Kassala State while their leaders were transferred to unspecified areas inside Sudan.

Eyewitnesses in the border areas said they heard gunfire during the clashes, noting that the entrance of Ethiopian opposition forces to Hamdait created a state of confusion among the population.

A pro-Ethiopian opposition TV confirmed that Asgedom turned himself in to the Sudan, without giving details.
The Eritrea-based Ethiopian opposition coalition consider TPDM to be the military wing while the Ginbot 7 of Berhanu Nega lead the political forefront.

Ethiopia also backs Eritrean opposition groups in the context of proxy wars between the two longtime foes.

Taking the progress Mekelle University has come through into consideration, I have no hesitation about becoming one of the 25 Universities in Africa, and why not in the world? Dr. Kindeya, KEEP IT UP.
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Let alone top 25, we are worried that it’s fate would be like that of Asmara University. Corruption from Department head to the President himself and his commerades such as Tedros Hagos put MU at the least standard one can imagine! Kindeya is not a leader MU deserves first, next his puppets like Abdelkadir, Gebremeskel and Asmelash are all power hungry coward amateur leaders. And this is the long hand of TPLF. Why did Professor Fasil leave MU? Why did Zerihun Abebe of Ayder was taken to Paulos Hospital? ….So, immeasurable plans are all plans that take us no where! Our failure to manage our own affairs especially those issues of education, Health, Good Governance and Strategic Long term planning will cost us generations to come. MU affairs is generally, an extension of what the regional government is doing to weaken our generation. And, this is for some well calculated and for others “beyiwhna”! But provided that MU has got inspirational leaders, with in 10 years, it can be ranked better. For anyone who need evidence, there are plenary of them.